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Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 08:10:58 +0200
From: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com>
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Question for users of the Firefox browser
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Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	I've been using Firefox for ages and something struck me recently as a
> bit odd. In the Windows version, if I click up into the address or
> search boxes, the existing contents are highlighted and if I begin
> typing, the existing text is deleted and what I'm typing becomes the
> contents. On the Linux version, under KDE, it doesn't. I have to click
> into the appropriate edit box, highlight the contents and start typing
> or hit either home/end and then start deleting before typing my new URL.
> If, for example, the existing text happens to be a google search string,
> this can be quite a bit of text to delete.
> 
> 	So my question, I suppose, is multipart:
> 
> 1) Is this by design? Is this the normal behaviour?
> 
> 2) Have I set a USE flag wrong somewhere that causes this behaviour?
> 
> 3) How do people get around the problem I mentioned above regarding long
> URL's, such as a Google search results?
> 
> 	Any thoughts, greatly appreciated,
> 
> 		Andrew
> 

You can try to double/triple click the text.
Or use <Ctrl+L> or <F6>.
I am using vimperator with gui=None, so I don't see the url/search bar.
I simply hit "o" or "t" and start typing ;)

Concerning the other points: I can't tell you if it's intentional. I never cared ;)
You can argue that canging the URL gets mor difficult with the way it works on WIN
An I don't think this depends on USE-Flags.